Jacobi, Mrs. Mary – James, Harry D
Jacobi, Mrs. Mary
(PUTNAM), physician, author, was born Aug. 31, 1842, in London, England. She is a physician of prominence in New York city, and the first woman to enter and graduate from Ecole de Médecine in Paris. She is the author of The Value of Life; Cold Pack and Anæmia; Hysteria, and Other Essays; The Martyr to Science; Studies in Primary Education; Common Sense Applied to Woman Suffrage; Manual of Nursing; and Found and Lost.
Jacobs, Ferris
JR., soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 30, 1836, in Delhi, N. Y. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1865, rising from the rank of captain to that of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was elected district attorney in 1865, and was reelected, and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-seventh congress as a republican. He died Aug. 31, 1881, in White Plains, N. Y.
Jacobs, George
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 24, 1834, in Kingstown, Jamaica. He came to the United States in 1854, and in 1869 he was called to the pastorate of a Philadelphia synagogue.
He wrote several Sunday-school books, and was a frequent contributor to the Jewish press.
Jacobs, Henry Eyster
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia, professor in the lutheran seminary since 1883, and editor of the Lutheran Review from 1882. He is the author of The Lutheran Movement in England; The Lutherans; several translations of religious works from the German; and History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States.
Jacobs, Israel
congressman, was born in Germany. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1791 to 1793.
Jacobs, John Adamson
educator, author, was born Aug. 19, 1806, in Leesburg, Va. He was an educator who was forty-five years superintendent of the deaf and dumb institution at Danville, Ky. He published Primary Lessons for Deaf Mutes. He died Nov. 27, 1869, in Danville, Ky.
Jacobs, Joseph
manufacturer, banker, legislator, was born Dec. 8, 1828, in Hingham, Mass. He represented the town of Hingham in the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1881-83. Since 1876 he has been president of the Hingham National bank.
Jacobs, Michael
educator, author, was born Jan. 18, 1808, in Waynesborough, Pa. He was an educator who was professor in Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg in 1852-71, and published Notes on the Rebel Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg. He died in 1871.
Jacobs, Michael William
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1850, in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a lawyer of Harrisburg, and the author of a Treatise on the Law of Domicile.
Jacobs, Orange
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 2, 1829, in Livingston county, N. J. In 1852 he moved to Oregon, was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of Washington territory in 1869, and settled there. In 1871 he was appointed chief justice of the territory, reappointed in 1874, and held that position when elected a delegate to the forty-fourth congress. He was reelected to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Jacobs, Sarah Sprague
author, was born March 17, 1813, in Pawtucket, R. I. She is a writer of Cambridge, Mass., and author of Nonantum and Natick, a juvenile giving an account of the labors of John Eliot among the New England Indians, and White Oak and Its Neighbors.
Jacobs, William R
journalist, poet, was born Jan. 2, 1868, in Elizabeth, Pa.
He commenced life as a printer, and subsequently entered into a journalistic career. He is the author of a volume of poems. Some of his productions have been given a place in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Jacobus, Melancthon Williams
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 19, 1816, in Newark, N. J. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn and Pittsburg, and professor of Oriental literature in the Theological seminary at Allegheny City, in 1851-76. He was the author of Letters on the Public School Question; Notes on the New Testament, a very popular work; and Notes on Genesis. He died Oct. 28, 1876, in Allegheny City, Pa.
Jacoby, Ludwig Sigismund
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 21, 1813, in Germany. He was a methodist clergyman of German birth who as general foreign agent of the methodist church resided at Bremen in 1849-72. On his return to thê United States he lived in St. Louis. He was the author of Geschichte des Methodismus; Letzte Stunden; Kurzer Inbegriff der christlichen Glaubenlehre; and Biblische Hand-Concordanz. He died June 21, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo.
Jacques, Daniel Harrison
physician, author, was born about 1825. He was a southern physician who edited The Rural Carolinian. He was the author of Hints about Physical Perfection; The Garden; The Farm; The Barnyard; The House; Florida as a Permanent Home; How to Grow Handsome; The Temperaments; How to Behave; and How to Talk. He died Aug. 28, 1877, near Fernandina, Fla.
Jadwin, Cornelius C
civil engineer, congressman, was born March 27, 1835, in Carbondale, Pa. He was a civil engineer from 1857 to 1861. He served for nine years as a member of the district board of education, three years as president of the board, and was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-seventh congress as a republican.
Jaffrey, George
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 22, 1682, in New Castle, N.
H. He was successively a councilor, a judge, treasurer of New Hampshire, and chief justice. The town of Jaffrey is named for him. He died May 8, 1749, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Jaggar, Thomas Augustus
bishop of southern Ohio, was born June 2, 1839, in New York. He has published baccalaureate addresses before the universities of Pennsylvania and Ohio; an address to the graduating class of the Philadelphia Divinity school; a sermon preached before the American Social Science association; The Ministry of Phillips Brooks; Duty of the Clergy in Relation to Modern Skepticism; as well as various pastorals and addresses on general subjects.
James, Amaziah B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 1, 1812, in Stephentown, N. Y. In 1853 he was elected a justice of the state supreme court; resigned in 1876; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.
James, Bushrod Washington
oculist, climatologist, author, was born Aug. 25, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the author of American Resorts and Climates, and Alaskana, or Legends of Alaska, which is in its third edition.
James, Charles P
lawyer, jurist.
He was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1879.
James, Charles P
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born May 11, 1818, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was appointed professor of law in the Law school of Cincinnati college in 1850, and served six years. He was appointed judge of the superior court of Cincinnati to fill a vacancy. He moved to Washington, D. C., in 1864; was one of the commission appointed to revise the statutes of the United States, and was for four years professor of law in the Law school of Georgetown university, D. C.
He was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in 1879.
James, Charles Tillinghast
mechanic, inventor, United States senator, author, was born in 1804 in West Greenwich, R. I. He wrote a series of papers on the culture and manufacture of cotton in the south. He was a senator in congress from 1851 to 1857 from Rhode Island. He subsequently invented a rifled cannon, and met his death from the explosion of a shell of his own invention. He died Oct. 17, 1862, in Sag Harbor, N. Y.
James, Darwin R
merchant, banker, congressman, was born May 14, 1834. in Williamsburg, Mass. He was one of the founders of a dispensary; one of the founders and treasurer of the bureau of charities of Brooklyn, and served six years as park commissioner. He became a director in a Marine Insurance company; secretary of the New York board of trade and transportation, and a member of the executive committee of the New York Anti-Monopoly league. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-eighth, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
James, Edmund James
educator, author, was born May 21, 1855, in Jacksonville, Ill. He is professor in the university of Chicago, and the author of numerous monographs and articles on various scientific and educational subjects, the principal of which are: Our Legal Tender Decisions; The Education of Business Men; and The Relation of the Modern Municipality to the Gas Supply; with several translations from the German.
James, Edwin
geologist, botanist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1797, in Waybridge, Vt. He was a geologist and botanist whose later years were spent in Burlington, Iowa. He was the author of Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains; Narrative of John Tanner; and a translation of the New Testament into the Ojibway language. He died Oct. 28, 1861, in Burlington, Iowa.
James, Francis
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1843.
James, Harry D
lawyer, was born Oct. 14, 1867, in Ogle county, Ill. After receiving a liberal education he entered educational work. He afterward took up the study of law; commenced the practice of his profession at Sioux Falls, S. D., in 1891, and the following year moved to Flandreau. In 1896 he was elected state's attorney of Moody county, and is gaining a good reputation as an able lawyer.